About CIC-K and TCI’s #WhatWENeed campaign Championing for Inclusive Communities in Kenya (CIC-K) is a membership, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization registered as an NGO in Kenya since 2022. CIC-K’s mandate is to promote human rights-based advocacy on community inclusion of mental health psychosocial support services for persons with psychosocial disability. CIC-K...

Solidarity, Emotional Awareness, Social Justice and Compassion: Insights from The Red Door’s Community Mental Health Program in India By Pranami Tamuli The Red Door’s Mental Health & Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) interventions with young women and girls from structurally excluded communities in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have been extremely...

Comprehensive Legal Reform Aligned with Human Rights Standards – In Bangladesh and Beyond

Submissions by TCI’s Member from Liberation (UK) and it’s members

On the edge of society Existing in a kind of limbo Between acceptance and lunacy Outside banal normality Strange thoughts indeed Like icicles melting Then falling and crashing Only to form again In the cold of night Figments of mind’s eye Anonymous assailants They’ve stopped at present All is silent....

Subject: Emdr: A Journey to my-self I found my face again… i’d lost her for a while, unseen through pinched lips and visible cracks in my covering and a sadness ever present in the schema. I found her while looking through the past, shining a green light, a beacon pulling...

REMISI (Indonesia Revolution and Education for Social Inclusion) is an organization that advocates for the rights of youth with psychosocial disabilities in Indonesia. Their blog highlights the urgent need for peer support groups, inclusive workplaces, and fair representation in policy-making to create a more inclusive society for Young persons with...

By Korean Disability Forum “FootAct” and “Deinstitutionalization Coalition of Korea” have been leading the cross-disability DI movement in South Korea, especially with “Deinstitutionalization Coalition of Korea” being the first coalition mainly consisted of members who are survivors of institutionalization themselves. In 2024, they wrote a declaration of DI rights and...

On November 13 & 14, 2024, Inclusion Canada and People First of Canada hosted the 15th annual federal policy forum on inclusion. This year’s theme was Roofs and Rights – Inclusive Housing Policy and People with Intellectual Disabilities. This event brings together policymakers, self-advocates, families, academics, and the disability community to...

Bhargavi Davar & Aleisha Carroll 2024 This ‘Disability Equity and Rights: Challenges, opportunities, and ways forward for inclusive development’ publication was prepared under the DFAT – CBM Inclusion Advisory Group Disability Inclusion Technical Partnership, an Australian aid initiative implemented by CBM Inclusion Advisory Group and the Nossal Institute for Global...

Recognizing the lack of political will is crucial in framing a theory of change for mental health care reform, especially when challenging entrenched systems like capitalism, colonialism, and psychiatry. This necessitates strategies that work both outside traditional political structures and within them to catalyze cultural and systemic change, driven by...

I have a friend, a young man with a psychosocial disability, who spent a considerable amount of his life in a prayer center. (You may call it a detention center because often time when families take their loved ones there, the expectation is that they are staying there for an...